With all the attention paid to social media darlings Twitter and Facebook you can't blame plain old email for feeling like its days in the marketing spotlight are numbered.

Professional designers it turns out have a lot to say on the subject of Twitter. There isn't a great deal of agreement as to whether or not Twitter is useful or if it signals the end of the world as we know it. Whatever your position on its utility there are quite a few creatives that use it and the ranks are growing.

I signed up for Twitter a ways back and then didn't do anything with it for months. I really didn't know why I should try to fit a blog post into 140 characters. It seemed silly and pointless. But then more and more people started using Twitter to keep in touch, to update friends on news and something twigged.